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Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon may rise to 30 per cent

In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Depending on what it sees, the odds of collision could drastically increase

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NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

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Asteroid exploded 'similar to a bomb' over France in a rare event

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Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it

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Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids

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Asteroid on collision course with moon could fire shrapnel at Earth

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy

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Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon

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An artist impression of Earth quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa near the Earth-Moon system. (Image credit: Addy Graham/University of Arizona)

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China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system

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The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely close flyby in 2029 to learn how to deflect others like it

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032

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Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have fallen again

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